‘Syrian Bride’ Weds Simple Tale, History
Naomi Pfefferman
November 17, 2005
Clara Khoury and Hiam Abbass star in \”The Syrian Bride,\” where bureaucracy is an uninvited guest.
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Qumran Offers Look at Legacy of Scrolls
Lisa Alcalay Klug
November 17, 2005
Archaeologists believe the Essenes were highly concerned with maintaining their ritual purity and bathed at least twice a day. An aqueduct system caught water from the hills above and channeled it into an elaborate series of mikvahs, or ritual baths.
Skip Beaten Path for Zipline Adventure
Jack Weiss
November 17, 2005
Ziplining with the Orthodox. Digging for Maccabean relics with archaeologists. Off-roading on the Golan. We planned our family trip to Israel on the theory that our kids would learn more if they were happy and engaged than if they were bored and bedraggled.
Spectator – Movie for ‘Rent’
Keren Engelberg
November 17, 2005
The sound and feel of Broadway\’s \”Rent\” are intact, even while the music assumes a slightly edgier rock core, and some dialogue is spoken rather than sung.
Hier, Pope Talk at Vatican
Tom Tugend
November 17, 2005
During a private audience at the Vatican, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Pope Benedict XVI this week to lead a \”coalition of the good\” against international terrorism and threats from Iran.
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